10-hour standoff at South Tahoe hotel ends peacefully
An Auburn woman was taken into custody Thursday morning by South Lake Tahoe police officers after a 10-hour standoff.
Jennifer Lynn Trezona had barricaded herself in a room at the Pine Cone Acre Motel on Emerald Bay Road in South Lake Tahoe the night before.
Jennifer Lynn Trezona
Police throughout the region on June 13 had received notice from Auburn officers that the 49-year-old woman was suicidal and to be on the look out for her. Her vehicle was found in the South Lake Tahoe hotel parking lot Wednesday at 6:30pm.
“They discovered what room Trezona was in and went to check her welfare. When the officers attempted contact, Trezona brandished a handgun at them and then immediately barricaded herself inside the motel room,” South Tahoe police Lt. Brian Williams said in a press release.
Crisis negotiators were brought in.
El Dorado and Douglas county provided sheriff’s deputies to help at various times during the standoff.
Trezona eventually surrendered at 5am June 14.
She was booked on felony charges of brandishing a weapon at a peace officer.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
I find it truly amazing that an officer on patrol could spot the suspect’s car. The nessary resources be dispatched and a nobody hurt. Great job SLTPD!
The SLTPD may be one of the best police departments in the nation. The professional and restrained way they dealt with this standoff, with nobody hurt, is what good policing is all about. Normally, brandishing a gun at officers would have resulted in this woman being shot dead in places like Sacramento, but not here. Instead the police kept their cool and saved this woman’s life.